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Old 09-23-2011
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Originally Posted by ifthanwhile
Sorry I forgot to mention this in the original question. What I am looking for is something that I can continue to write UNIX compatible scripts on, I write alot of small simple scripts at work in terminal (Mac OS X 10.5 etc.) but run Win 7 at home. I dont really need much in the way of GUI (it would be convenient but unnecessary)
Hmm. If you keep in mind its limits, Cygwin can work fairly well. It's not really UNIX, but it lets you install a BASH shell in Windows, run things mostly the same way you would in UNIX and so forth. There's some corners. mkfifo almost never works right because windows doesn't actually have that kind of fifo.

Ubuntu doesn't come with the BASH shell, just the far more limited DASH one, so maybe Fedora? You could also try installing an OS in a virtual machine.
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Old 09-23-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Ubuntu doesn't come with the BASH shell, just the far more limited DASH one, so maybe Fedora?
I don't use it, but last I heard (a few years ago), while Ubuntu switched to dash for its bootscripts, bash remains the default interactive shell. Did they subsequently drop bash altogether?

Regards,
Alister

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This is what I was recalling: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

Regards,
Alister
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Old 09-23-2011
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Originally Posted by alister
I don't use it, but last I heard (a few years ago), while Ubuntu switched to dash for its bootscripts, bash remains the default interactive shell. Did they subsequently drop bash altogether?
Things may have changed, then.
# 11  
Old 09-23-2011
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Ubuntu doesn't come with the BASH shell

This is an absolutely wrong statement.
# 12  
Old 09-24-2011
Although not very well known distros, I like GRML.org and sliTaz.org, they are not meant for newbies, at least not GRML, and they come with Fluxbox as a desktop, which is nothing like Windows, if you like non graphic intensive distros I think you will be happy with any of them.

If you rather try a BSD flavour, since you are used to MACs, maybe MidnightBSD.org
# 13  
Old 09-25-2011
About Ubuntu: bash is the default interactive shell. dash was chosen as the default system shell (/bin/sh) mainly because it is significantly faster than bash and so Ubuntu starts up signifcantly faster. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

Also, the memory requirements really are a lot lower than Windows: Ubuntu vs. Windows memory, and a backup solution | Developer World - InfoWorld
The OP likes to write scripts that should run on multiples platforms, so than it is good to have POSIX-only compliant dash around for testing, since scripts that work in dash, will likely work in other POSIX compliant shells too..

So I'd say Ubuntu may be a good choice.
# 14  
Old 09-25-2011
I think that you will find you answer in one of the following OS , UNIX FreeBSD, Linux Fedora , and Linux Centos , all of them are free ,light , and you can do some magic with them.
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